‘As an actor you have to keep some sort of enigma and mystery. There’s a dignity to keeping private.

‘I’m trying to keep a bit of dignity to my private life and to protect the people in my life.

‘It’s the choice I’ve made,’ he also said.

Gay controversy: Beauty and the Beast

Evans plays Gaston in new remake of Disney movie Beauty and the Beast.

The movie caused controversy, after it was revealed Gaston’s sidekick LeFou was gay.

In an interview with the Guardian last year, Evans said: ‘I don’t blast it from the rooftops because I’m a very private person.

‘And it doesn’t affect anything.

‘But it’s life. This is who I am as Luke,’ he said.

The film features a scene with two male characters dancing in the ballroom together, as well as an excited male character in drag.
The movie caused an uproar in infamously anti-gay countries like Russia and Malaysia, with calls to ban the gay-friendly movie.